The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1887-07-21

tent OF this practice, but from q private
investigation made not long since II 10
learned hat no less than $25, 00O, 900
worth Of oyercertided chscks were issued
Secretary Fairshild has purchased for
$50, 900 4 residence at New Hampshire
avenue and Twentieth streets, Washington.
Secretary Whitney has sold "Grass.
land" his country place on the Tenally
road above Georgetown, reserving the
right to lease 1t tor two years. In 1885
the secretary purchased this place, which
contained 100 acres and q large house for
$30. 1000. He sold it for $1O7.50o.
The secretary OF the interior has recon-
mended that the attorney general accept
the offer OF compromise made by e. G.
Long OF st. Paul for the value OF timber
purchased from Edwin johnson, Andrew
Pautski, John L. Oleson and Heinrich
Shultz, who had cut the am la nd in Wis.
consin, near West Superior. The amount
offered In compromise is $2,O67.7O. The
secretary has also recommended q com.
promise with F. T. Littell & Co., Duluth,
for $2,4S7 as the value OF 500, 603 feet OF
lumber and 100 railroad ties, which
Littell & Co., had purchased from parties
who had cut them from public lands.
The subjects OF King Kalakaua compel
him to appoint q new ministry. The king
CAAT"Vu wv AOOhAA VAAO AAOAO OuV - otx1De
ped OF nearly all his power.
In a parliamentary election in Coventry,
Eng, Ballantine, G~ladstonian, was elected
by q majority of 16, receiving 1920
against 4, 213 for Eaton, Conservative.
Mexico figures her total public debt, aft.
er repudiating about $25o,OOO. 900 OF old
obligations and the Macmillan and French
occupation debt, at 1851, 900, 900. The
English experts figure 1T at $198, 600, 900.
Mexico owes the English about $50. O0O,-
O0O. Mexico's new consols are worth
only FOX in London. They constitute all
Mexico has with which to pay her creditors
The president has appointed the follow.
Ing postmasters; Amos FL. Kaisnor at
signed; Thomas G. Medury, Waukuou,
Iowa. Postmasters Commissioned-Da.
kota; Wheeler. D. L. p. Lamb; Young: M.
West. Wisconsin,: Tisch Mills, F. w. Stan.
gle. Fourth-class postmasters appointed
Dakota: Claremont, P. M. kingrose;
Sentinel Butte, II. Gilbert; Tiffany, G. II:
Field; Corey, NJ. 3. Carman. Minnesota:
Minneota, c. P. Kinyon; Plainview, F. A.
Wells.
At Edinburgh, Andrew Carnegie laid tho
foundation stone OF the new free library
donated $4,000 Mr.. Blaine was pres
emit and made the address: He claimed Mr..
Carnegie as 2 countryman. There was no
child in the United States old enough to
know about things away from home, un-
acquainted with Edinburgh, the works OF
all Scotland's best thinkers having always
had large calculations in America, and all
having profited by them. He looked back
with pleasure upon the splendid galaxy OF
ney Smith-whose literature later he avow.
cd had been cultivated upon little oatmeal.
H. A. p, Carter, tho Hawaiian minister
at Washington, who is in Washington,
speaking OF the revolution in Honolulu
said: The king probably abandoned some
OF his prorogatives and pledged himself to
stick more closely to- the limitations OF
power. I know the new chief minister,
w. NJ. Green, rather well. He is an in.
telligent, we'll meaning man, and it he has
full control, will manage things we'll. King
the United States, and though the head Of
the new cabinet Is an Englishman by birth
I think the movement is In no sense a blow
at American interests. The king did violate
the constitution sometimes, and in that
direction and many others the change will
be for the better. It is only q sort OF
domestic publication and reform.
Last Saturday afternoon the 9th INST,
at Dalles Hill, Eng, in the presence OF a
large number of guests invited by Mrs.
Gladstone to a garden party the American
testimonial to Gladstone was formally
presented to the ex-premier, after being u.
hiblted by him to the guests. The pre-
sentation speech was made by Hon. Joseph
Pulitzer, Of the New York World. Mr..
Pulitzer was accompanied to Dalles Hill
by Mrs. Pulitzer. Hon. Perry Belmont of
New York, Hon. Patrick Collins of Boston
and several newspaper correspondents.
HIr50%~n ~1ooSrv4I %11 ~1-A- -A ~S1--1.
and after shaking hands and presenting
them to Mrs. Gladstone, all proceeded to
the lawn, where the testimonial was exhib-
tied. It was a massive piece OF silver
'woCk. It was carefully examined and adj
mired by Mr.. and Mrs. Gladstone. Mr..
Pulitzer made the presentation speech,
in which he assured Mr.. Gladstone OF the
sympathy Of the American people with the
cause which he championed so ably, and
sharply divided on many questions they
united enthusiastically upon William
Evart Gladstone.
The postmaster at Grand Isle, Mimi,
is said to have violated the postal laws
and is to be removed.
A slight shock OF earthquake occurred in
the towns ofRollinsiord, Somers, Worth
and Harrington, N. H.
Twenty years ago Guy G. Hotchkiss, Jr.,
the eldest son OF a we'll known manufact.
urer OF Williamsburg disap peared from his
home. Hc left behind him q young wife
and a boy child. The elder Hotchkiss
died many years g and left a large sum
of money to his missing son Last Feb.
ruary the grandson, Thomas Hotchkiss,
| found his father living like a hermit in the
"Golden State" Guy Hotchkiss has just
| returned to his home.
The names of most of the people burned
| In the fire at Hurley, Wis, are unfamiliar
to the theatrical agents in Chicago. Belle
Danvers, who was lying i'll In bed in an up
aames closed in on her and forced her to
Jump for her life, has a sad story, She
was one OF the most popular members Of
the. Lydia Thompson company when that
| organization came to Chicago in 1869. She
was then q beautiful young woman, twenty
| years Of age, with a voice that promised
to make her the rival Of the most noted
singers of the day. A throat trouble injur-
ed her, and she began singing In variety
theaters. She finally drifted into the con.
cert saloons OF Minneapolis and st. Paul,
and then the worst dives OF Hurley.
The regular stream of excursionists to
the Yellowstone Park and Alaska has be.
gan in earnest, and from all over the coun-
try people flock to these points.
At Port Huron, Mich, the United States
customs collector recently stopped thirty
Canadians from working on the Grand
Trunk road. A number Of them are EN-.
ployed in prominent positions.
The decision Of the supreme court OF
| Washington Territory, q few months ago,
that the woman suffrage act was uncon.
stitutional was tested recently at Seattle,
c~I 2%hn n4s,~k ln&SAnl that 1,,,lo~ tho Ia